Posted on 06/20/2017 7:41:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin
he manager of the state’s power grid issued a statewide Flex Alert for Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon, urging residents to voluntarily conserve electricity to ease demand on the system.
The Flex Alert issued by the California Independent System Operator, or Cal-ISO, will be in effect from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday throughout California. Residents were urged to set thermostats at 78 degrees or higher, close drapes and use fans to cool rooms, turn off unnecessary lights and appliances, and delay using major appliances until early in the morning or late in the evening.
In response to the heat wave, several Los Angeles cooling centers — including recreation centers and senior centers — will have extended hours Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Good question
Bakersfield Ca
The older neighborhoods in Phoenix are lush with shade trees. Plus screened off porches aka “Arizona Rooms”.
When I was a kid we had nothing but swamp coolers. I think it was a dryer heat then. We’ve got higher humidity now. Maybe from all the green lawns and auto sprinklers or something. We didn’t have those then. No one cared about lawns. We just had 2 swamp coolers pulled off our house because we never used them anymore. They were tied into the ac. When the swamp coolers quit working we could turn on the ac.
“And no one had air conditioning, but it was a “dry” heat!”
I was looking at the temperatures in Palm Springs yesterday and it was 119 with the humidity as low as 4%. That is a day heat.
Barely cracked 70 degrees at my house just south of San Francisco. What heat wave?
I hate heat. Right now living in the armpit of LA county. Running around in 100 degrees yesterday was not at all fun.
;) if only cows farted less, it would be much cooler.... /s
111 in Bakersfield - not that unusual I wouldn’t think. I’m used to going through there in August and it is always above 100.
Same here. I don’t bother with the A/C until it’s in the 90s. Open the windows and turn on the fans.
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